Publisher's Description

Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery tool can help you recover lost images from corrupted or accidentally formatted digital camera memory cards. Program works with all types of memory cards. It's able to recover images from formatted cards. Reads corrupted cards (in most cases even if they're not recognized by Windows). Recovers JPEG, TIF and most of RAW files. Program should be able to read all memory cards currently available on the market.

Version 3.1 1 includes full support for all major RAW formats and additional advanced recovery options.

What's new in this version:

Version 3.1 1 includes full support for all major RAW formats and additional advanced recovery options.

I was stressed about deleting photo files that for some reason thought that they were copied on PC. This has not happened before, and when I realized they were deleted, I tried resolve on my own. Nope, did not work. So I looked on the web under "how to get photos from SD card after deleting them" and photo recovery appeared. Well to my relief there was a way to get them back. However, a bit sceptically I asked questions to the tech who informed me it was going to be ok. Now what a relief after thinking that they were gone for good. Yes they all came back plus older ones that were copied and deleted as well. Wow, impressive! FYI there is a portable version of Digital Photo Recovery, which can be found here: http://www.flash-video-soft.com/photo-recovery/

Cons

I waste 4 hours of my time scanning for files, and the sofware makes me retype the registration code again, are u kidding me?????? also it will not accept all the characters in the box, the the program locks up and my 4 hr scan is long gone, DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Summary

I was stressed about deleting photo files that for some reason thought that they were copied on PC. This has not happened before, and when I realized they were deleted, I tried resolve on my own. Nope, did not work. So I looked on the web under "how to get photos from SD card after deleting them" and photo recovery appeared. Well to my relief there was a way to get them back. However, a bit sceptically I asked questions to the tech who informed me it was going to be ok. Now what a relief after thinking that they were gone for good. Yes they all came back plus older ones that were copied and deleted as well. Wow, impressive!

It found all 1357 photos of my last trip with my senior class. It worked great as it did what it said it would. It's not free but cheap, compared to the other softwares out there.

Cons

YOU NEED THE FULL VERSION of this software to actually restore the files. So it's really misleading. It's about 25 dollars. Well it's not expensive compared to the other softwares available for this. But in the end, it just tricked me to buy it.

THIS ONE IS REALLY GOOD! No expertise necessary! Low space disk and sources req'd, i've spent money on another program that claimed to do the job but it didn't! AND THIS ONE DID! WELL DONE ALL INVOLVED IN THIS CREATION! 55 STARS...

Cons

I'VE TAKEN THE MICRO SD CARD FROM THE CAMERA AND PUT ON THE PHONE AND AUTOMATICALLY STARTED TO ENCRYPT ALL DATA.HALF WAY THROUGH IT STOPPED AND I TOOK THE CARD OUT; NO PREVIEWS AVAILABLE, ETC. THEN THIS LITTLE PROGRAM SAVED MY HOLIDAY MEMORIES!!!

It pulls everything off the card that is still evident. With a 1G card that was a lot--20k inmages! Most of these were video(individual video frames). It eould be great if it would recover video intact.

none, except perhaps would be even better if mp3 files and video could be recovered as well

Summary

I have a Samsung Instinct phone and somehow the 2GB card fouled on me, crashing over 320 photos, plus music, a few video clips, etc. with it in the process. In the phone settings, I could see that I had 500MB+ of data on the card, but neither the phone, nor a laptop/Card reader could find the individual files. 2 calls to pleasant Sprint customer service, but they were at a loss after trying several rather creative ways to recover the data. Grateful for their attempts but disappointed with the results, I scoured the internet and found that this wasn?t an uncommon occurrence for the SD cards that shipped with the Instinct. But no solutions were available on any of the forums that I could find, other than to attempt to recover the data somehow. Sprint and Samsung should address this issue, but that's a topic for another day.

Next step ? recovery software. I tried several, but many were specifically geared to recovering files that were accidentally deleted, not files where the card had actually corrupted. Long story short, and several failed attempts and/or pricey data recovery solutions later, I found Art Plus Photo Recovery. While I wasn?t able to recover the several mp3 music tracks that I had on my phone, I wasn?t too concerned over that, as I could add the tracks back from my original CDs. But since I hadn?t backed up my photos, those were my priority. I?m thrilled to say that I was able to recover virtually all of the photos that I thought were gone on my corrupt SD card, with the exception of just a couple of files, and that might be due to the fact that they could have been overridden by additional photos taken before I realized the card had gone bad. The software was easy to install, intuitive to use, and was relatively quick - in a matter of several minutes it found my files and recovered them.

Art Plus Photo Recovery does exactly what the name says ? they recover photos, and do a great job of it. I highly recommend this to anyone who has suffered through the loss of data on an SD card. Don?t give up until you?ve given it a try.

This program did EXACTLY what it is suppose to! After a friend's SD drive became corrupted housing her baby's first father's day and Disney trip, I thought all was lost. I found Art Plus and it saved the day!!!

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